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Re:The FDA wants you to be able to buy a hearing aid without... by dsr_ on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @04:01PM (#28922976)
That's particularly odd because the normal prescription for sleep apnea right now is for a self-adjusting PAP machine -- an APAP -- which has quite a range of pressures that it will automatically apply to minimize apneation events. And if you exceed the range, it will wake you up and alert you to that fact, too.
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Re:The FDA wants you to be able to buy a hearing aid without... by bradknowles on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @09:18PM (#28925728)
Not from my doctors. I asked.

They said that an auto-PAP is not the first choice. A CPAP is a better choice, if it will work for you at the pressures you need. But they only work up to certain levels of pressure.

An auto-PAP will work to higher levels of pressure, but then it has to continually adjust the levels of pressure that it applies based on the resistance it senses, and that is not as good for you as constant pressure.

And there’s no way a CPAP or auto-PAP is going to wake me up at night, short of causing me to go into an apnea condition and potentially die.

Thank you, but no. I’ll stick with my CPAP.

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